Pointe-Noire
CongoAw
📷 David Stanley· CC BY 2.0"Ponton la Belle" | "Beautiful Pointe-Noire" (the city's affectionate French nickname)
About
Pointe-Noire is the second largest city in the Republic of the Congo, with a population of 1,420,612 inhabitants in 2023. It is also an autonomous department and a commune since the 2002 constitution; before this date it was the capital of the Kouilou region. It is situated on a headland between Pointe-Noire Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Pointe-Noire is the main economic centre of the country. It is located near the border with Angola.
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The next week in Pointe-Noire
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Drizzle
27° / 23°
2.2 mm
UV Moderate
Sat
Drizzle
27° / 23°
UV High
Sun
Drizzle
27° / 23°
UV High
Mon
Drizzle
27° / 23°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
28° / 23°
UV High
Wed
Overcast
27° / 23°
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
30° / 21°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.9h
06:11 – 18:05local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Pointe-Noire
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Antonio Agostinho-Neto International Airport (PNR) at 5 km.
Getting around Pointe-Noire
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC BY-SA 4.0, Jens Pattke.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.